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Old 06-19-2009, 01:40 PM
Sjouke Burry
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Re: W7 stuff

BillW50 wrote:
> In news:4a3bd2bd$0$1655$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl,
> Sjouke Burry typed on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:02:37 +0200:
>> AJL wrote:
>>> John Doue <notwobe******.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I very much doubt any application will run faster on W7 than on XP.
>>> W7 certainly could be faster than XP. It is possible to write faster
>>> code. But besides that I imagine that you're pissing into the wind.
>>> XP will surely go the way of prior OSs. Lets see, are there still
>>> any W98 diehards out there? Going once, going twice... ;)

>> 0 w7
>> 0 vista
>> 1 xp
>> 1 w98
>> 2 dos/win311 for workgroups
>> 1 arc310 risccomputer
>> 2 BBC B micro's
>> 1 Acorn Elektron (German version)

>
> Now list them in the order you use the most with the most on the top and
> the least on the bottom. No Win7 or Vista here, but most of mine are
> running XP. Although I might be upgrading some of the XP machines to
> Windows 2000 soon. <grin>
>
> "We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." -- Henry
> Spencer
>

W98 should drop 4 places, the rest is in the right order.
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Old 06-19-2009, 01:40 PM